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• Getting your housing plan from the council

  Check when the council will give you a housing plan. Check how it can prevent you becoming homeless or help you find a new home.

• If you're offered housing because you're homeless

  Check what kind of accommodation the council is offering. Check if it's suitable for you to live in, and what you can do if it isn't suitable

• Deciding what to do about housing discrimination

  Find out what you can do to solve your problem and get everything ready before you take action

• Check you have the ‘right to reside’ for housing

  If you have pre-settled status or you’re waiting for a decision from the EU Settlement Scheme, check how to show you have the ‘right to reside

• Moving to another council or housing association home

  Moving to another council or housing association home Moving to another council home or housing association home

• Check if the Benefit Cap will affect your Housing Benefit

  Check how much the benefit cap is and whether it will affect your housing benefit. The cap is a limit to the total amount of money you can get.

• Check if you’re allowed an extra bedroom for Housing Benefit

  Find out if you can get Housing Benefit for another room in your council home because you have a disability or someone is away from home.

• How an extra bedroom affects your Housing Benefit

  Find out how an extra bedroom affects your housing benefit. Check if your room counts as an extra room and if you're allowed an extra bedroom.

• Check if a room counts as an extra bedroom for Housing Benefit

  Find out how the council decide if you have a spare room in your council home, and when they can reduce your Housing Benefit - sometimes called the ‘bedroom tax’.

• The council says you've had a Housing Benefit overpayment

  Check if you’ve actually been overpaid Housing Benefit and find out how to challenge a overpayment.